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slug: 09-app-icon-generation
role: index
date: 2026-04-21
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> **📅 Research snapshot as of 2026-04-21.** Provider pricing, free-tier availability, and model capabilities drift every quarter. The router reads `data/routing-table.json` and `data/model-registry.json` at runtime — treat those as source of truth. If this document disagrees with the registry, the registry wins.

# Category 09 — App Icon Generation

Single 1024² master → platform-specific fan-out: iOS squircle / AppIcon.appiconset, Android adaptive layers + monochrome, PWA maskable, visionOS 3-layer parallax; HIG validators.

## Angles

| File | Topic |
|---|---|
| [`9a-ios-app-icon-hig-specs.md`](./9a-ios-app-icon-hig-specs.md) | iOS App Icon Specs & Apple Human Interface Guidelines: Sizes, Masks, Safe Zones, Dark/Tinted, Liquid Glass, visionOS |
| [`9b-android-adaptive-themed-icons.md`](./9b-android-adaptive-themed-icons.md) | Android Adaptive Icons, Themed Icons, and Play Store Asset Pipeline for AI-Assisted Generation |
| [`9c-pwa-web-app-manifest-icons.md`](./9c-pwa-web-app-manifest-icons.md) | PWA & Web App Icons — Manifest, Maskable, Apple Touch, Favicons |
| [`9d-icon-generation-tools-survey.md`](./9d-icon-generation-tools-survey.md) | Icon-generation tool landscape — SaaS, CLIs, and embeddable libraries for iOS/Android/web/desktop packs |
| [`9e-prompt-patterns-for-app-icons.md`](./9e-prompt-patterns-for-app-icons.md) | Prompt Patterns for Platform-Compliant App Icon Generation Across AI Models |

## Also in this folder

- [`SYNTHESIS.md`](./SYNTHESIS.md) — synthesized insights across angles

## Up one level

- [`../index.md`](../index.md) — master research index
- [`../SYNTHESIS.md`](../SYNTHESIS.md) — master synthesis
